"The trouble with the Americans is that they expect everyone to be nice and kind and gentle and loving, and when they're not, they get terribly upset."

"There are some things that we can't do anything about, and there are some things that we can."

"When you're writing, you're creating a world, and you're the master of it."

"So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall."

"I never saw a child who didn't want to be a grown-up."